on the site where Kublai Khan had once built his famous palace. Purple nameThese Chinese characters say Zijincheng, “purple forbidden city,” the full name of the imperial complex in Beijing.

The Forbidden City, the palace once home to the emperors of China, was built by workers sliding giant stones for miles on slippery paths of wet ice, researchers have found. The emperors of China ...

Once forbidden to outsiders, the city's palaces were built of massive stones in the 15th and 16th centuries. (See "Forbidden City—China.") "How in the world did they get these massive rocks to ...

The imperial palace and surrounding buildings in the Forbidden City, a complex that has long served as the figurative center of China’s capital city, were built in the early 1400s, but ...

Between the square and the gate, old archways were torn down, and a broad highway was built in their place. There is no single reason why the Forbidden City escaped this period of razing and ...

More than 230 years ago, Emperor Qianlong, a Renaissance man who ruled during the heyday of China's last dynasty, built a magnificent palace in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City.

Even today, it sounds like a near impossible task: build an earthquake-resistant wooden building, strong enough to endure several tumultuous centuries, without using nails or glue. One of the most ...

Like so many other of the world’s greatest wonders, the construction that surrounds Beijing’s Forbidden City is shrouded in mystery. Until now, no one quite understood how workers some 500 ...

The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial China and survived wars, revolution, fires ...

Here’s how it works. The Forbidden City, the palace once home to the emperors of China, was built by workers sliding giant stones for miles on slippery paths of wet ice, researchers have found.

The imperial palace and surrounding buildings in the Forbidden City, a complex that has long served as the figurative center of China’s capital city, were built in the early 1400s, but ...

The Forbidden City, the palace once home to the emperors of China, was built by workers sliding giant stones for miles on slippery paths of wet ice, researchers have found.